Murphy tools: Utilizing extracted GUI models for industrial software testing

Pekka Aho; Matias Suarez; Teemu Kanstrén; Atif M. Memon

doi:10.1109/ICSTW.2014.39

Murphy tools: Utilizing extracted GUI models for industrial software testing

Pekka Aho, Matias Suarez, Teemu Kanstrén, Atif M. Memon

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Abstract

One of the main challenges in adopting model-based testing (MBT) is the effort and expertise required to produce the formal models. For an existing system, there are various approaches to automate the process of creating the models. In this paper, we share our experiences from a long term industrial evaluation on automatically extracting models of graphical user interface (GUI) applications and utilizing the extracted models to automate and support GUI testing. While model extraction and GUI testing has been recently a popular research topic, most proposed approaches have limitations on what can be modeled and industry adoption has been lacking. We describe the process of using Murphy tools to extract GUI models and utilize these models to automate and support various testing activities. During the evaluation, test engineers of an industrial software company used Murphy tools to support their daily efforts in testing commercial software products during 1 year time period. The results from the evaluation were promising, significantly reducing time and effort required for GUI testing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE 7th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	343-348
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-5790-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2014.39
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	7th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014 - Cleveland, OH, United States Duration: 31 Mar 2014 → 4 Apr 2014

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Conference	7th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cleveland, OH
Period	31/03/14 → 4/04/14

Keywords

graphical user interface
GUI test automation
industrial test environment
model extraction
reverse engineering

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Aho, P, Suarez, M, Kanstrén, T & Memon, AM 2014, Murphy tools: Utilizing extracted GUI models for industrial software testing. in IEEE 7th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014., 6825683, IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 343-348, 7th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014, Cleveland, OH, United States, 31/03/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2014.39

Murphy tools: Utilizing extracted GUI models for industrial software testing. / Aho, Pekka; Suarez, Matias; Kanstrén, Teemu et al.
IEEE 7th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2014. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2014. p. 343-348 6825683.

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